Elections to the Corts of Castile and León, 2011

Elections to the Corts of Castile and León, 2011
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  First party Second party
 
Leader Juan Vicente Herrera Óscar López Águeda
Party People's Party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Seats won 53 29
Seat change 5 4
Popular vote 737,553 423,239
Percentage 51.6% 29.6%
Swing 2.4% 8.1%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader José María González Alejandro Valderas
Party United Left Leonese People's Union
Seats won 1 1
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 69,861 26,479
Percentage 4.8% 1.9%
Swing 1.8% 0.9%

The 2011 elections to the Corts of Castile and León were the eighth elections to the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. The elections were held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 84 members of the Assembly, an increase of one seat on the previous Corts. Voting was in 9 electoral districts, corresponding to the provinces of Castile and León.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used was closed list proportional representation with seats allocated on a provincial basis using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which polled at least 3% of the votes in a particular province (including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above") were eligible for seats.[1]

The elections were won by the People's Party, which had formed the government of the region since the second democratic elections in 1987 and had won a majority of seats since the 1991 elections. Both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Leonese People's Union lost seats, while United Left won their first seat since the 1999 elections.

One of the first tasks of the Assembly was to elect the President of Castile and León from among their number, with the incumbent President, Juan Vicente Herrera of the PP, re-elected.

Contents

Representation by province

Number of seats per province
Province Ávila Burgos León Palencia Salamanca Segovia Soria Valladolid Zamora Total
Members
7
11
14
7
11
7 (+1)
5
15
7
84 (+1)

Candidates

Parties represented in the 2007-2011 Corts

Presidential candidates are in bold

Candidates
Province PP PSOE UPL Notes
Ávila
Mercedes Martínez
Burgos
Juan Vicente Herrera
Mª Fernanda Blanco
León
Miguel A. Fernández Cardo
Alejandro Valderas
Palencia
Julio López
Salamanca
Fernando Pablos
Segovia
Óscar López
Soria
Esther Pérez
Valladolid
Ana Redondo
Zamora
Carlos Hernández

Parties unrepresented in the 2007-2011 Corts

Presidential candidates are in bold

Candidates
Province IU UPyD Notes
Ávila
José Alberto Novoa
Ana Domínguez
Burgos
Pedro María de Palacio
Juan José Ruiz
León
Miguel Ángel Fernández
Adrián Álvarez
Palencia
Mariano San Martín
Jesús Curiel
Salamanca
Miguel Ángel Quintana
Segovia
José Ricardo Sanz
Soria
Luis López Martínez
Valladolid
José María González
Félix Sánchez Montesinos
Zamora
Santiago Fernández
José Miguel Mateos

Opinion polls

Poll PP PSOE UPL IU UPyD Others
2007 results:
48
33
2
-
-
-
Público[2](March 2010)
48.9%
33.4%
2.0%
6.0%
5.4%
4.3%
Seat Projections
49
33
0
1
1
-
El Mundo[3](May 2010)
49.8%
34.5%
2.4%
5.4%
1.8%
6.1%
Seat Projections
48-49
31-33
1-2
1-2
-
-
El Mundo[4](January 2011)
53.6%
34.4%
2.4%
3.0%
-
6.6%
Seat Projections
48-54
27-33
1-2
0-1
-
-
El Mundo[5](April 2011)
53.8%
33.4%
2.6%
3.9%
-
6.3%
Seat Projections
49-54
28-31
1-2
0-1
-
-

Results

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President and government Party Candidate Votes  % Seats +/-
  • President: Juan Vicente Herrera Campo
  • Government: PP
  • Eligible electorate: 2,050,777
    • Voters: 1,457,594 (71.1%)
    • Abstention: 593,183 (28,9%)
      • Valid votes: 1,429,603
        • For candidates: 1,382,554 (96.7%)
 People's Party (PP) Juan Vicente Herrera 737,553 53.35 53 +5
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) Óscar López Águeda 423,239 30.61 29 -4
United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL) 69,861 5.05 1 +1
Leonese People's Union (UPL) 26,479 1.92 1 -1
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 47,045 3.40 0
Castile and León Party (PCAL) 15,871 1.15 0
Castilla and León Party-Independent Candidate(PCAL-CI) 8,459 0.61 0
Party Against Bullfighting, Cruelty and Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 5,309 0.38 0
Alternative Social Movement (MASS) 4,779 0.35 0
Leonese Autonomist Party- Leonese Unity (PAL-UL) 3,743 0.27 0
Yes for Salamanca Coalition (SI) 3,700 0.27 0
Citizens for Blank Votes (CENB) 3,602 0.26 0
Zamoran Independent Electoral Grouping-Zamoran People's Union (ADEIZA-UPZ) 3,323 0.24 0
Greens of Salamanca (VERDES) 2,759 0.20 0
Soria Development Initiative (IDES) 2,665 0.19 0
The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV) 2,622 0.19 0
El Bierzo Party (PB) 2,501 0.18 0
National Democracy (DN) 2,099 0.15 0
Citizens of Burgos for Old Castile (CiBu) 1,992 0.14 0
Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country (PREPAL) 1,937 0.14 0
CIVIQUS (CIVIQUS) 1,688 0.12 0
Green and Castillian Coalition (VyC) 1,560 0.11 0
Falange Española de las JONS (FE JONS) 1,516 0.11 0
Castile and León Regional Unity (URCL) 1,424 0.10 0
International Solidarity (SAIn) 1,255 0.09 0
Communist Party of the People of Spain (PCPE) 1,744 0.13 0
San Andrés Independent Party (IxSA) 883 0.06 0
Merindades Initiative of Castile (IMC) 802 0.06 0
Leftists of Segovia (SdI) 758 0.05 0
El Bierzo Regional Party (PRB) 664 0.05 0
Humanist Party (PH) 523 0.04 0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 1,252 0.09 0
Family and Life Party (PFyV) 199 0.01 0
None of the above N/A 47,012 3.3 N/A N/A
Void N/A N/A N/A

References

  1. ^ Castile and León election results historiaelectoral.com, accessed 7 April 2011
  2. ^ "Público: Gobernar no desgasta al PP. (13/03/2010)". http://www.publico.es/espana/301250/gobernar-no-desgasta-al-pp. 
  3. ^ "El PP refuerza posiciones y el PSCyL corre el riesgo de perder dos escaños en la Comunidad (15/05/2010)". http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/05/15/castillayleon/1273920132.html. 
  4. ^ "Electómetro: El PP revalidaría su mayoría absoluta en Castilla y León (El Mundo, 07/01/2011)". http://www.electometro.es/2011/01/el-pp-revalidaria-su-mayoria-absoluta-en-castilla-y-leon-el-mundo/. 
  5. ^ "El PP ampliaría su mayoría absoluta en Castilla y León". Electómetro-El Mundo. 25 April 2011. http://www.electometro.es/2011/04/el-pp-ampliaria-su-mayoria-absoluta-en-castilla-y-leon-el-mundo/. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
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